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Friday, June 15, 2012

New Release: Robert Nelson SABLE REVERY

Just published is the first of our series of Nodens Chapbooks—smaller projects that don't make up full-sized books.

Sable Revery: Poems, Sketches and Lettersby Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson (1912-1935) was a contributor of verse to Weird Tales magazine in the mid-1930s, and of verse and prose to fan magazines like The Fantasy Fan. He was also a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

This slim volume collects all of his published poems, prose-sketches and letters, which date from the last four years of his short life.

Also included are five letters by H.P. Lovecraft, four to Nelson and one to Nelson's mother after the young man's death.

"His promise in the field of literature seemed to me very considerable; for despite the marks of youthful construction—indefiniteness or overcolouring now and then—his work had a distinct imaginative richness and atmospheric power which was rapidly improving through criticism and self-discipline. I expected to see him develop like other youths whose careers I have watched—August W. Derleth, Donald Wandrei, Frank B. Long, etc.—who are now well-established figures in the world of weird writing."

H. P. Lovecraft on Robert Nelson

Sable Revery is available in two formats, trade paperback (from Amazon and Lulu) and hard cover with dust-wrapper (from Lulu).

His main blog is on Tolkien and Fantasy, but he also contributes to the blog Wormwoodiana, devoted to classic "literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent." And for those with even more rarified bibliophilic tastes, he also does a personal blog for Lesser-Known Writers.